Knowing when to quit

It is so tempting to want to keep going once you start a task. You can see the edge of the end just beyond reach and if you just stretch a little more, you can make. When I drove to Colorado, I discovered that the Rocky Mountains which were just over there, were really way over there. It is a lesson that I forget often. The end of the day, has often been my make up for my sins time...or if I “lolly gag (aka procrastinate)” around for most of the day, I can always put it into high gear and move forward with light speed and make it to the destinations. Sometimes, they just move the mountains or the capacity button is short circuited. I decided last night in Yoga, there is some positions that I just don’t bend that way. I know that with time you can do it, but I have other things to do with my time and bending my toes forward and backward with a very hurting bunion, is not on the list. So when I am doing a task that is tedious and I am tired and I am pushing to finish, effectiveness is dull, your error rate increases and once you get to the end, you are too tired to do anything you really wanted to do. Somehow this week my Sunday morning weekly planning session got pushed to Wednesday night and so I have to do the entire week of todo’s in less than seven days and I am tired. It is about pacing, balancing, and focus. I watched the end of the Dancing with the Stars last night... you have to have passion, tell a story, keep the rhythm, look like you are having fun, all while moving your feet and hands head and torso in some predetermined manner in unison with some partner with whom you are hardly connected. Who invented such an impossible demand and yet I see so many of us try to do the dance of life in a foxtrot. In my life, the plan is the dance of meditate, yoga, vitamin/supplement, eat well and healthy, meet obligations, save money, enjoying free time with friends and look happy. The reality is scratch meditation, yoga, and eating healthy but keep in the obligations and then things you just take on because no is doing it mix that with some lake of time planning and you find yourself keeping up with friends on the cell phone as you drive to wherever which appears to be at least 40 miles one way from home... so while my song wants to be.. “I won’t dance, don’t make me”...it isn’t “Is that all there is”.... but maybe it is just “I am (a 21st century American) woman see me roar.......